PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nomothetic, Psychological Testing, Predictive Validity

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Nomothetic research is the psychological research geared towards understanding the. Some research focuses on why and how some humans differ from others focuses on. Can be controversial especially when it comes to educational grouping (e. g. gifted students) There is the belief that intelligence could be innate and the belief that it could be shaped by the environment. Intelligence that be shaped by the environment could be nurtured in a person. Used to be believed that intelligence is purely innate and therefore there was no way to change someone"s level of intelligence. An ability to measure intelligence might be beneficial in a number of ways but also controversial. Benefit: it allows you to assess whether certain educational approaches lead to higher levels of success. Psychologists define intelligence testing as a method for assessing an individual"s mental aptitudes and comparing them with others using numerical scores. There is a population base reference used. Galton was interested in measuring all human aspects.